The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia - Rilegato

Ulloa, Astrid

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ISBN 10: 0415972884 ISBN 13: 9780415972888

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2005

Riassunto

This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. This text is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements in Latin America, in general, and indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta do Columbia (SNSM), in particular. It demonstrates the process of the construction of indigenous peoples' environmental identities as an interplay of local, national and transnational dynamics among indigenous peoples and environmental movements and discourses in relation to global environmental policies.

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L'autore:

Astrid Ulloa is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in Colombia, mainly in Chocó and in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Her research focuses on indigenous peoples' movements, ethnicity, and the anthropology of the environment and climate change. She is the author of various books about community-based management of fauna and the cultural and environmental politics of indigenous peoples in Latin America and Colombia.

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An analysis of indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. Ulloa's study explores the intersection of indigenous peoples' movements and environmentalism and sketches new forms of governance organized around the 'ecological native', a figure who reflects both the Western imagination of a vanishing time when humans lived in harmony with nature and a profoundly double-edged strategy for indigenous groups seeking rights and recognition in the modern world. It is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements in Latin America, in general, and the peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta de Colombia (SNSM), in particular. Key areas covered include: * the construction of environmental identities as an interplay of local, national and transnational dynamics among indigenous peoples and environmental movements and discourse in relation to global environmental policies * the political effects that these processes have had on indigenous peoples' autonomy, territories, resources, knowledges, identities and representations. As such it will be particularly suited to anthropologies and political science professionals and scholars as well as undergraduates, graduates and professors on programs such as Anthropolgy, Environment and Development, and Latin American Studies

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415972884
• ISBN 13: 9780415972888
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 314